New Bass Pro Shops store planned in Canada

Springfield-based Bass Pro Shops announced plans for its sixth Canadian store Friday.

The 145,000-square-foot store will be located in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia and will anchor the 1.2-million-square-foot Tsawwassen Mills mall, according to a news release. The store will include Uncle Buck’s Fishbowl and Grill, and is scheduled to open in 2016.

“This will be our fourth project with developer Ivanhoé Cambridge, and we are grateful to them for selecting Bass Pro Shops to be one of the premier anchor tenants in this new retail development,” Bass Pro Shops founder Johnny Morris said in the release. “We have enjoyed tremendous success with our partnership with Ivanhoé Cambridge and our existing stores at Vaughan Mills in Toronto and CrossIron Mills in Calgary. We look forward to working with them again on our new stores in Niagara-on-the-Lake and Metro Vancouver.”

More than 2.3 million people live in the Metro Vancouver area, according to the release, making Vancouver the third largest metro area in Canada and the most populated in western Canada.